The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-30
BINGHAM RETAINED.
The Lessees Give Him a More I'm
portant Position than Ever.

The Lessees Give Him a More I'm
portant Position than Ever.
Notwithstanding the existence of the
warrants against Whipping Boss Bingham,
and the summary discharge received from
the Governor, 1t seems that Bingham has
been given as good berth as the one he
had before. The Griffin NetOS of Saturday
says:
Yesterday morning Mr.. Bingham was
appointed as General Superintendent Of the
whole works of those employed by the les
sees, but to have nothing TODD with the con-
victs themselves,
RECEIVING THE SAME COMPENSATION AS BE-
FORE.
Mr.. Bingham is man who bears an excel
lent character, and among those who have
seen the convicts at work under his charge
bearing the appearance Of being well fed
and certainly not oyerworked-he could
scarcely be considered person of excessive
cruelty or brutality. At the same time he
is evidently not one who could
not brook continual INSTRUMENTATION. 10
Sheriff Council he talked freely, max
ing some statements and expressing views
that are at least worthy of consideration.
He said that he was heartily glad to be freed
from the responsibility OF whipping boss, as
the negroes We're becoming very insubordi-
nate under the impression that the Governor
and Legislature were now on their side,
and ready to punish officials who should
seek to control them by severe meth
DDS, which alone would suffice in some cases.
The four negroes punished had been
unrIly, mutinous and quarrelsome for
some time past, and he had forborne to
punish them as long as it was possible, be-
cause he knew there would be row about
it, but the more lenient he was seen to be
the worse they naturally became, until the
discipline Of the camp demanded that they
should escape salutary punishment no
longer. Mr.. Bingham's statement is
Mr. Connell saw the persons of the ne
groes who had been fogged, and while there
was no doubt that they had been severely
punished, it was nothing like what had been
described, nor did his ''face whlten as he
told of what he had seem" as Governor Cor
don so dramatically described the effect
upon Towers and Shubrick. Mr.. Council
is a conservative gentleman of gooo Judg-
ment, and does not think the cases VIII
amount to much upon trial.
1t was remarked at Atlanta. Saturday,
by several gentlemen that the retention OF
Bingham by the lessees was bad feature of
the case, and that while the Governors Or
ders could not OF course dictate to the les
sees who they should employ on their prl-
vate work, where convicts were not en-
ployed, the retention of a man as superin-
tendent of the general work, who had
been so summarily discharged, and for the
cause that Bingham had, was violation
of the spirit of the order Bing-
Bingham was arrested on Thursday even
ing by Sheriff Council, of Spalding county,
who carried him to Griffin. Bingham
waived an investigation before Judge Sher-
rell, the justice of the peace, and was re-
leased under a bond of $500; the Judge
placing the bond at 800 in each case. He
was consequently bound over to the Febru-
airy term of Spalding Superior Court. Bing-
hams camp is now in charge of Capt. c.
A. Redd, formerly of Columbus, who was
named by the Governor to take charge of the
camp pending the investigation. In addi-
ton, Penitentiary Guard William Turner is
there as a special State agent, to note any
and all matters of Importance, to report the
same to the Governor, and to receive his
orders direct from the Governor. The les
sees of companies Nos. and will appear
before the governor on Thursday morning
to show cause why these contracts should
not be annulled